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Robert Kuttner

Hard Labor

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

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Robert Kuttner

There are three parts to the woes of American workers -- falling wages, rising unemployment, and insecurity about the future. More robust policies could improve all three.

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Think Again: Dick Cheney's Post Presidency

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

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Eric Alterman

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...

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7 Days: Kuttner on Economic Crisis, with Huffington, Reagan & Green

Mark Green | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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Mark Green

While Republicans throw $700 billion to Wall Street but complain about a $14 billion loan for blue collar workers, Bob Kuttner explains why this should be a transforming economic and political moment for Obama.

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Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

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A Fine Mess

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

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Robert Kuttner

The bailout bill will enable Obama to assume one of his favorites stances -- the progressive who bridges differences. He can claim that the unified Democrats dramatically improved a flawed and self-interested Republican bill.

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Watching History Unfold

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Jared Bernstein

You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.

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Little Orphan Fannie

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

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Robert Kuttner

Here is the cycle: government invents something virtuous. The private market takes it over, loses hundreds of billions. Government then bails it out. Surely there is an Obama teachable moment here.

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Conservative Book Marketing vs Progressive Book Marketing

J.S. McDougall | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media

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J.S. McDougall

When it comes to the mass marketing of ideas, the conservatives have been embarrassing the progressives for years. I attribute this to the simple fact...

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Obama's Challenge, Part I: The Rhetoric

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

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Robert Kuttner

What Obama needs is some of what Biden did last night, speaking personally of what American families worry about

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A Tale of Two Obama Books: Why Do Progressives Still Not Get It?

Jennifer Nix | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media

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Jennifer Nix

Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.

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Obama And The End Of Reaganomics

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

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Robert Kuttner

A President Obama's greatest challenge would be to reverse the ideological assumptions of the past three decades and then to use affirmative government to deliver not just economic recovery but a just and balanced economy and a revitalized democracy.

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Barack Obama And The Hope Of Audacity

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.19.2008 | Home

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Robert Kuttner

Obama, in his books and speeches, has been almost obsessed with the idea that people are sick of partisan bickering. Yet he also has claimed the identity of a resolute progressive. Can he be both?

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